Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1887-11-19
An Address.

RNOEAS W ~ "AAASAA
the resolutions adopted by the tenn
perance convention last week:
To the People of Tennessee: Never
before in the history of any question
in this State, which has called for
organized effort of any character to
insure desired results, has al organi-
zation like that which marshaled in
vincible power upon the voting field,
Sept. 90 last, been known. Grand in
its proportions, wonderful in its
makeup, and we feel equally SO in
its results. Composed, as it was then
and now, of men actuated by the
highest motives Of truth and justice,
and nerved by the warmest impulses
of patriotism, irrespective of party or
partisan views, it deserves for the
cause inscribed upon its banners the
respect and serious consideration of
all men. And, when added to this,
we find the united influence of the
clergy, casting into the country's side
of the balance the elevating power of
the pulpit and, too, we beheld with
inexpressible pride the invincible
courage of woman, in her perfect
purity of spirit. They are the moth
ers, wives and daughters who come
with petitions from the home circle,
who bear petitions from scenes of
wretchedness and woe, where prisons
bind, where death revels, where the
liquor traffic has strewed the field
with wrecks and ruins.
We have in this struggle demon
strated certain facts and developed
certain principles. A tendency to the
propagation and definite teaching of
strict honesty, and wise economy, Of
raternal self-denial. MOI is it diff
cult to discern a newborn desire to
promote the interest of a nobler civil
zation than we have yet attained. To
make direct war upon those ideas and
customs and upon any business or
traffic which brings disease to the
body polite, and to shiver the trait
or's dagger, whether it be drawn by
party, by a traffic or by peculiar So
ciety influences; and further, that
not oily are falsehood and injustice the
eternal enemies of the inevitable
working forces of the universe, but of
the cause of humanity the cries of
which shall be heard, the demands of
justice, social and fraternai, shall be
met, and from heaven, through
mans great heart, suitable and ade-
quate laws are provided which man
did not make and man cannot
change.
And prominently standing to the
front among all these developments
is a revival of all that patriotism and
religious devotion to our country,
which, in the past, marked the proud.
est days of the old Volunteer State.
And now, fellow-citizens, what are
the demands of the present, and what
is our duty AS friends of prohibition
and the opponents of theliquor traffic,
To rise to the full measure of duty
and the responsibilities of the hour
!, may not be reviewed without diff.
!, Guilty. We have much to encourage
when we remember that not one steI
heretofore taken by the Temperance
people has been lost. Neither have
we at any time been compelled tc
turn our back to the enemy, or fol
once retreat.
Our adversaries cannot, neither dc
they, boast Of a victory in the Sep
TENDER fight. The vote in behalf o.
the amendment and the character OF
that vote carried CONSERVATION and
confusion to their uncertain and un.
stable lines, and seeing that the
means that secured for them tempo
rary cessation of hostilities, cannot
be depended upon IN the absence Of
/, corrupt appliances, and methods en-
tirely vicious in their character, moth
ing can be more evident than the
early and complete overthrow of a
!, business against which the purest
citizenship OF the State is unalterably
fixed.
We rejoice in the fact that so many
of the young men of Tennessee not
My voted but worked for prohibition
/, in the September election. This is
the h%arbinge- of better things for us
and a glorious future for them.
When whisky ceases to be a factor in
our elections every young man in the
State will stand as he ought to stand.
on his own merits, if he desires 30,
litical preferment. Rum cares moth.
ing for merit. 1t seeks its ends by
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